John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

In 1991, a Virginia Symphony search committee made a bold move. The members auditioned six candidates vying for the position of music director/conductor and selected the only woman. JoAnn Falletta was born in Brooklyn and schooled in Manhattan, at Mannes College of Music and The Juilliard School. But she was working in the Western part of the country where she conducted the Long Beach (Calif.) Symphony Orchestra, the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic of San Francisco, and the Denver Chamber Orchestra. At the time, her inexperience with full-time orchestras was less a factor than the prevailing notion that women were not cut out to be symphony conductors. "It was a big jump for...

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